On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, David Dawes wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:34:16AM -0800, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> >On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, David Dawes wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 07:40:40PM -0800, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> >> >On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, David Dawes wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 04:00:18PM -0800, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> >> >> > > I just updated on my dual-card system and with the update I see
> >> >> > >a problem restoring the console that I did not see previously. If
> >> >> > >I startx on the primary card and then quit, the primary card is
> >> >> > >restored
> >> >> > >correctly. However, if I startx on both cards and quit, the
> >> >> > >primary card is not restored correctly. I have a hard time imagining
> >> >> > >how it could be a driver issue since the "nv" driver knows nothing
> >> >> > >about
> >> >> > >the other cards in the layout (nor should it) and does not change
> >> >> > >its behavior when there is more than one card in the layout. The
> >> >> > >core server code, on the other hand, does.
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > Have there been changes to vgahw, RAC, PCI config code, console
> >> >> > >code, etc... that may have caused this regression?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Do you know approximately when this problem started?
> >> >>
> >> >> I haven't updated in a long time on that machine. I'll try to
> >> >> figure out when, but I'm not sure how to do that reliably.
> >> >
> >> > I can't tell when I last updated on this machine.
> >>
> >> Can you go back to 4.4 as a first step, or do you know it was post-4.4?
> >
> > It worked fine with 4.4. I built sometime after 4.4 but I'm
> >not sure when.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> I tried 4.5.0 RC1 with a multi-head config using a Mach64 and i810,
> >> and didn't see any problem like this. I can try some other multi-head
> >> configs later this week.
> >
> >
> > What OS are you on? It could be something specific to Linux
> >console/vt.
>
> That quick test was on Linux. Without further information, I'd
> suggest trying a snapshot from the last month or so, then work
> backwards or forwards from there. What do the console restoration
> problems look like?
I'm left with just a blinking cursor.
Mark.
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